Framed She calls me at 2pm. I’m walking across Wilshire Blvd on a quest for iced tea. Her voice is charming, inflected, slightly authoritative. – Daddy, my computer doesn’t work. – What’s wrong? – It won’t let me go on the internet. – Is your airport connection working? (muffled tones as she asks her mother the same question) – Now it works, Dad. – I love you. – I love you, too.

This is what we have so far on her POV of the story. (btw, she nags me every day to write more) This is a story about a girl who got cancer. Her name was Jordan. One day, she had really bad headaches. Her mommy and daddy took her to the emergency room. She was frightened. But then, she saw her doctor–Dr. Cohen. Dr. Cohen made her happy. But that day, Dr.

Ow! Jordan neglects to brush her hair. When it gets really bad, Jeanette steps in. The photograph demonstrates the result. We started her book this weekend. We selected pictures that would tell the story. My head keeps going nuts trying to solve a problem that really doesn’t exist. I keep thinking, how am I going to help Jordan write a book? She doesn’t think that linearly. Then, she walks up and says to me, “this is the story about a girl who got cancer.

Notes and Observations She wants to write her story. She calls me at work to share the news. – Dad, I want to write a story about my cancer. Will you help me? Later, when I am home, she tells me more. She wants to write a story about what’s happened to her. She wants to start at the beginning, when the headaches arrived. She tells me this with impeccable clarity.

Jordan considers her next adventure She leaps from the hospital bed and scrambles for the play room. Jeanette follows her down the hall with several bags of belongings slung over her shoulders. The bi-weekly chemotherapy ritual is underway. Jordan allowed the nurses to access her port without too much fuss this time. She pleaded for a few minutes, refusing to let the team near her, but then Jeanette intervened and reminded Jordan that she had already wiped off the anesthetic cream.